1 A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,2 you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.3 All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.4 Therefore I said, "Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people."5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.6 Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.9 You saw that the walls of the City of David were broken through in many places; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.11 You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.12 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.13 But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink," you say, "for tomorrow we die!"14 The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: "Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for," says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.15 This is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "Go, say to this steward, to Shebna the palace administrator:16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?17 "Beware, the LORD is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, you mighty man.18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master's house.19 I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.20 "In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat "of honor for the house of his father.24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots —all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.25 "In that day," declares the LORD Almighty, "the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.

1 Onus vallis Visionis. [Quidnam quoque tibi est, quia ascendistiet tu omnis in tecta ?2 Clamoris plena, urbs frequens,civitas exsultans ;interfecti tui, non interfecti gladio,nec mortui in bello.3 Cuncti principes tui fugerunt simuldureque ligati sunt ;omnes qui inventi sunt vincti sunt pariter ;procul fugerunt.4 Propterea dixi : Recedite a me :amare flebo ;nolite incumbere ut consolemini mesuper vastitate fili populi mei ;5 dies enim interfectionis,et conculcationis, et fletuum,Domino Deo exercituum,in valle Visionis,scrutans murum,et magnificus super montem.6 Et lam sumpsit pharetram,currum hominis equitis,et parietem nudavit clypeus.7 Et erunt elect valles tu plen quadrigarum,et equites ponent sedes suas in porta.8 Et revelabitur operimentum Jud,et videbis in die illaarmamentarium domus saltus.9 Et scissuras civitatis David videbitis,quia multiplicat sunt ;et congregastis aquas piscin inferioris,10 et domos Jerusalem numerastis,et destruxistis domos ad muniendum murum.11 Et lacum fecistis inter duos murosad aquam piscin veteris ;et non suspexistis ad eum qui fecerat eam,et operatorem ejus de longe non vidistis.12 Et vocabit Dominus Deus exercituumin die illaad fletum, et ad planctum,ad calvitium, et ad cingulum sacci ;13 et ecce gaudium et ltitia,occidere vitulos et jugulare arietes,comedere carnes, et bibere vinum :comedamus et bibamus,cras enim moriemur.14 Et revelata est in auribus meis vox Domini exercituum :Si dimittetur iniquitas hc vobis donec moriamini,dicit Dominus Deus exercituum.]15 [Hc dicit Dominus Deus exercituum :Vade, ingredere ad eum qui habitat in tabernaculo,ad Sobnam, prpositum templi, et dices ad eum :16 Quid tu hic, aut quasi quis hic ?quia excidisti tibi hic sepulchrum,excidisti in excelso memoriale diligenter,in petra tabernaculum tibi.17 Ecce Dominus asportari te faciet,sicut asportatur gallus gallinaceus ;et quasi amictum, sic sublevabit te.18 Coronas cornonabit te tribulatione ;quasi pilam mittet te in terram latam et spatiosam ;ibi morieris, et ibi erit currus glori tu,ignominia domus domini tui.19 Et expellam te de statione tua,et de ministerio tuo deponam te.20 Et erit in die illa :vocabo servum meum Eliacim, filium Helci,21 et induam illum tunica tua,et cingulo tuo confortabo eum,et potestatem tuam dabo in manu ejus ;et erit quasi pater habitantibus Jerusalemet domui Juda.22 Et dabo clavem domus Davidsuper humerum ejus ;et aperiet, et non erit qui claudat ;et claudet, et non erit qui aperiat.23 Et figam illum paxillum in loco fideli,et erit in solium glori domui patris ejus.24 Et suspendent super eum omnem gloriam domus patris ejus ;vasorum diversa genera,omne vas parvulum,a vasis craterarum usque ad omne vas musicorum.25 In die illa, dicit Dominus exercituum,auferetur paxillus qui fixus fuerat in loco fideli,et frangetur, et cadet,et peribit quod pependerat in eo,quia Dominus locutus est.]